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Peer reviewedDugan, Robert E.; Ouderkirk, Jane – Library Hi Tech, 1988
Details the design, financial support, organizational structure, and evolution of a program to facilitate the automation of small public libraries in Massachusetts and to promote resource sharing among those libraries. A sidebar by Governor Dukakis expresses his views on the role and importance of libraries. (MES)
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Networks, Library Role, Microcomputers
Download full textMassachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. – 1983
In November 1982, questionnaires were sent to 1400 public, secondary school, academic, and special libraries in Massachusetts to determine their use of computers for various activities. Of the 778 respondents, 282 (36.2%) reported automation of some kind and an additional 105 (13.5%) indicated that they were planning some automation within a year.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computers, Indexing, Interlibrary Loans
